Thursday, February 3, 2011

WRITING ASSIGNMENT #53

For today, imagine the emotional pull of a significant event in your life. Forget about the words and the images. Instead, focus on the inner sensations. Run through the event a few times in your mind.

Now, commit the event to paper using an idiosyncratic asemic writing style. This entails your approximating the general form of letters and words as you write, but the whole piece should be illegible in any language.

ISSUE X NOW AVAILABLE!

LSLR #10 is NOW AVAILABLE at our local vendors (listed below) as well as on this very website.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND DEADLINES

Thanks to all who submitted their work for LSLR #11!

We are currently accepting submissions for Autumn 2012 (LSLR#12). The deadline is July 30, 2012.

Send your work as an attached Word .doc, .docx or in the body of an e-mail to submissions@loganliterary.com. Please limit your submission to three selections and 5,000 words. No individual piece should exceed 4,000 words. We will not publish any author two issues in a row.

Please include your residential information and a short (2-3 sentences) biography in your submission e-mail. We are looking for:

All published works are derived from submissions taken from the general public.

Anyone submitting a piece that is based on research (scientific reports, opinion articles, non-fiction), mustprovide a source list. The work will be disregarded for publication if a source list does not accompany the submission. If you have any question about what a source list should contain, please ask via e-mail.

ABOUT THIS JOURNAL

The LSLR is a not-for-profit quarterly journal based in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, IL. This publication aims to facilitate expression and add to the thriving community of arts and ideas in Logan Square. The Logan Square Literary Review is dependent upon submissions from the public. To submit a piece to the Logan Square Literary Review please send your original work as the body of an e-mail to submissions@loganliterary.com. All works are published with permission from the author and remain the property of their author.

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